shadow striker

"The Serie A champion won the Super Cup again, and the fallen nobles Turin lost three times against Milan in one year"

"Mr. Usayare, Mr. Usayare?"

"Sorry, what was said just now, can you repeat that Erkan?"

"It's a batch of cars that need to be exported to Ukraine. Our car had a little problem while passing through Austria. Maybe we will need some help from you, Mr. Usayare."

Alan Usayare, a Czech film actor who has become famous all over the world in the past few years, received the electronic version of the sports newspaper sent to his account by the Italian sports newspaper every day when he was talking with people.Gently clicking open, he saw the headline that made him lose his mind.

It was in a glass house, allowing people to enjoy the warmth of the sun while enjoying the central air-conditioning in the afternoon in late August.On the table is the afternoon tea carefully prepared by the chef of the Agnelli family.Delicious cakes, freshly baked cookies, freshly ground coffee, and fresh fruit.

And here is also the home of John Elkann, the current head of the Agnelli family.

Agnelli, this is a surname that symbolizes wealth, power and glory in Italy.The family is also the owner of the Juventus club.However, the Agnelli family has never been called a thriving population, and even several generations of heirs with extraordinary talents died early.

For example, Eduardo Agnelli, the second-generation descendant of the family who helped the family take over Juventus.For example, Edoardo Agnelli, the fourth generation successor.He was placed high hopes by his family, but finally chose to commit suicide.Alberto Agnelli, who is also the fourth generation heir, was extremely talented in management and was designated as the heir by the family, but died of cancer at the age of 33.

Finally, John Elkann, a foreigner, took over the huge Agnelli family when the family was weak.

But at this moment, the current Patriarch of the Agnelli family actually used a solemn tone when speaking with Alan Usayare.

The mottled tree shadow hit Alan Usayalei's face, bringing a suffocating beauty to his profile.Even his fingers holding the coffee cup look very artistic.

He took a shallow sip of coffee, lowered his eyelashes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Perhaps it is not a wise enough choice to transport such a large number of vehicles all the way to Ukraine from here, Mr. Erkan. You know, on the way from Italy to Ukraine, there will be many people who don't care about anything." mob."

"Yes, this is something we didn't expect. So, I want to ask for your help."

"Are you trying to seek help from my family, Erkan? Maybe I should say sorry to you. Because I can only be regarded as an insignificant role in the family. I don't participate in the affairs of the family. It would be wiser to go to my uncle. After all, he is the head of the family."

Although most people who knew Allen didn't know what the surname Usayare meant in the Czech Republic, and what a lofty status this surname had in ancient Central Europe.But that doesn't mean someone of John Elkann's stature couldn't learn what the surname meant.

In fact, the Ursayare is one of the ancient nobles in Europe.As early as before the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they had existed and endured for a long time. It was only after the outbreak of the two world wars that they fell silent and gradually became unknown to outsiders.

However, in the former center of Europe, the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, they have always had great power.And this power... even spread to Austria and Hungary.

This may not be a big secret among the upper class European aristocrats.

But John Elkann gave an unexpected answer after Allen said such a sentence.

"No, in fact, I didn't want to use the influence of the Usayalei family. All I need is Alan, not Alan Usayalei. I need some special protection from you. Especially . . . when those cars were going over certain borders."

The atmosphere seemed to freeze at that moment.Even Alan's movement of eating cake with a fork paused indistinctly.The movie star who had been smiling ever since he entered was gone, looking up at John Elkann.At this moment, what appeared from his captivating eyes was a real danger.

Cold and gloomy danger.

"what do you know?"

"Some innocuous little secrets."

"Like?"

"A legendary story about the heir of a great noble family who joined the largest gang in Central Europe as a boy."

"Maybe I should tell you that I don't like being threatened, no matter what form it takes."

"Of course, I'm just telling my request, and all I want to say is that I don't think anyone can help me more than you in this matter."

The young man who was so handsome that he could hardly forget it after seeing this sentence fell into a brief silence, and then he looked at the current head of the Agnelli family again, and the peace disappeared. , just showing a meaningful smile after the haze...

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"Edgar Edgar! What kind of guests do you think Dad is looking at? Why haven't you come out for so long! I really want to go and play with Dad!"

"Wait a little longer, little angel. Maybe you can play the piano for a while."

"I don't like it, I don't like it! I don't want to play the piano. Edgar, you said I would sneak into the yard and see who Dad was talking to outside the glass house?"

It was a very young man and a little girl who were talking.That little girl was none other than John Elkann's daughter.And that young man... is the only one of this generation of boys in the Agnelli family who bears the surname Agnelli.For the last two years the Juventus club's decision-maker, Edgar Agnelli.

Obviously, the little girl's words made Edgar Agnelli, who was always very cold in front of outsiders, helpless.Just as he was about to say something, the door to the glass house opened.

Walking out of it were John Elkann and Alan Usayare.

When Elkann's daughter saw Allen, the little girl's eyes were full of surprises that could not be described in words.

"Alan! You're Alan! I...I love watching your movies! You...know my dad?"

Seeing his little fan, Allen showed a stunning smile, then knelt down on one knee, took the little girl's hand, gave her a hand kiss, and said in his wonderful voice:

"Nice to meet you, little princess, I'm Ellen. Regarding your question, I want to say that I do know your father."

Hearing this answer, the little girl screamed happily, and then blushed and ran to her father's side and said, Dad, you knew that I liked Alan, why didn't you tell me that you knew him?

In this regard, John Elkann touched his daughter's head very lovingly, and then introduced his two family members to Allen.

"Allow me to introduce you to my family. This is my daughter, my little angel. This one is Edgar Agnelli."

Although Allen and Edgar Agnelli had never met.But sometimes just a last name is enough to make people understand everything.The young man in front of him is destined to become the next generation leader of the Agnelli family.

When Edgar Agnelli also saw Alan Usayare, he already understood the other party's status as a Central European nobleman, and extended his hand to the other party very politely.

It seemed that he wanted to let the two get acquainted, and if possible, even establish a friendly and stable relationship. After introducing the two respectively, John Elkann took his daughter and left, and told Edgar took Allen around the manor.

However, what John Elkann did not expect was that the topic that broke the silence between the two would be football.

"If what I understand is correct, the decisions made by Juventus in the transfer season in the past two years have been made by you?"

"you can say it this way."

"So maybe I can read that to mean, you know a lot about football?"

“I can’t say I understand it very well, but I just have some opinions of my own.

After hearing this sentence, Allen smiled, he seemed to think of his old lover Francisco.Perhaps it is not so appropriate to add such a preposition before Francisco's name, but Allen feels that this is indeed the truth.

"What do you think of Francisco?"

"Francisco? Which one?"

Edgar Agnelli is clearly a man who doesn't pay much attention to entertainment news.If not, he must know that Alan Usayare has repeatedly expressed his admiration for the Italian man who played in the Premier League in public.

And his question obviously made Alan laugh.

Indeed, if you have to say it, there has indeed been more than one Francisco in the history of football.

But when such a question is really asked, Allen has to say that the next generation of the Agnelli family is really... a very interesting person.

"Of course I'm talking about the Francisco who is now playing for the Turin team. If I remember correctly, it happens to be the summer transfer period? Does Juventus have any plans to buy him?"

"If only from a sports economics point of view, buying him would not be a wise choice."

Edgar Agnelli is not like John Elkann.He was given high hopes by his family and received an elite education since he was a child.The unique growth experience has made the Italian romantic sentiment and hedonism downplayed to the extreme in him.He is stern, unsmiling at a young age, and never sloppy in his work.

Strictly speaking, he doesn't like to actively communicate with people either.However, after the fifth generation descendant of the Agnelli family, John Elkann's flamboyant younger brother Lapo Elkann caused a major scandal of overdose while hanging out with transgender people, Edgar Agnelli An heir like Li is undoubtedly more reassuring to the family.

Speaking of what he is good at and interested in, Edgar no longer remains silent.He started talking to Allen about the so-called sports economy.

"Francisco is 22 years old, and even a transfer from one of the world's top clubs to a Serie A team that has just been promoted to the first division can't hide his talent, and his ability to score for the team. Coupled with his appearance Very good, playing the most expensive position in a team, so his worth must be overvalued.

If he was 20 years old this year, then I would consider buying him.But now that he has reached the peak age of a striker, I should focus on the younger but established star players.For example, his teammate in the Turin team, the NO.11 shadow forward.It's just that the Jew obviously spent a lot of money and effort on No.11 of the Turin team, and he has just started to recover the cost now, and he will not let go. "

"The Jew?" Allen caught the part of the sentence that interested him and couldn't help repeating.

"Yes, the guy who bought Torino two years ago came from a Jewish banker's family. His name was Karl and he was my age. I met him at some parties. He had the right idea of ​​running the club. Compared with the glamor of the team and the popularity in the world, the profitability of most clubs is actually not very good. The real money is made by those industries that use the team. Such as TV stations, sports newspapers, real-time Those big sites that update sports information. They use the team to make a lot of money, but they don't pay the club a penny.

Karl must have figured this out a long time ago.So before he came to Turin, he had started to buy some obscure TV stations and even sports newspapers.I'm not sure if he has invested in some other football-related industries, but I believe he is definitely not just the ones I know. "

Due to different fields, Allen has never met Carl.Moreover, he had never paid too much attention to the situation of the Turin club, and he didn't even know that it was such a young man who bought Turin two years ago and directly led to the revitalization of this declining noble.

However, what surprised him even more was what Edgar said afterwards.

"But I still want to say that he is too crazy and too bold. In order to successfully sign Francisco, he actually signed a contract with almost zero liquidated damages. Although he wrote the last item of the contract into confidentiality terms. But there has never been an impenetrable wall in this world."